10 Changes Made to the Bible (Part 1 of 2)

Hello there guys! This video will be an in-depth examination of how our modern Bible was created and written and how it differs from the ancient texts of thousands of years ago. You will learn how the Bible has been "changed" or "altered" over time and what these changes mean and why they were made - everything from Goliath's Height to Jesus's sayings.
Hope you enjoy and learn something new!

Edit:
I have since realized that a significant amount of the information in this video should be more properly cited to their original authors, to avoid taking credit for their hard work.
Much of this video would not have been possible without the research of Biblical scholar Bart D. Ehrman across his various works and lectures and I have since recognized that portions relied on him a little too much.
Here are some points where I should have quoted authors instead of paraphrasing or re-wording them.
10:00 (Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus, 2005, pg. 66-67)
11:32 (Ehrman, Misquoating Jesus, 2005, pg. 103)
19:57 (Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus, 2005, pg. 195-196)

Background music:
"Blue Feather" by Kevin Macleod

Citations:
Reddish, Mitchell (2011). An Introduction to The Gospels. Abingdon Press. ISBN 978-1426750083.
Burkett, Delbert (2002). An introduction to the New Testament and the origins of Christianity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00720-7
Duling, Dennis C. (2010). "The Gospel of Matthew". In Aune, David E. (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-0825-6.
Hays, J. Daniel (December 2005). "Reconsidering the Height of Goliath" (Portable Document File). Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. 48 (4): 701–2.
Ehrman, Bart D. Misquoting Jesus: the Story behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. New York: Harper, 2005.
Ehrman, Bart D. Whose Word Is It?: the Story behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why. London: Continuum, 2008.
Epp, Eldon Jay. Junia: the First Woman Apostle. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005.
Ben Witherington, “The Anti-Feminist Tendencies of the ‘Western’ Text of Acts,” Journal of Biblical Literature 103 (1984): 82–84.
Harris, William V. Ancient Literacy, 1991.
Sanders, E (1995). The Historical Figure of Jesus. Penguin UK.
Hitchens, Christopher (2007), God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, New York: Twelve Books, ISBN 9780446579803 .

[ddoyle]

I once got into a rather heated discussion with an acquaintance who insisted that Jesus spoke Elizabethan English. Never mind the fact that English didn’t even exist then.

[plebiansociety]

"I am a peaceful man" google translated from english to latin to greek to hebrew to greek to latin to english is "I have an airplane ticket"

[paulj]

i grew up in the Australian Presbyterian church. We were encouraged to learn the bible, and question translations. We were also ecouraged to know the difference between a story used to teach and actual one used to relate history...

[milhousevanhoutan]

Sidenote: The story of David and Goliath leaves out that David did the prehistoric equivalent of bring a gun to a knife fight. When even a moderately skilled person uses a sling you can hear it break the sound barrier. The rocks move at over 200 km/h, there's an account of the Romans in 123 BC being repelled by slingers at a port landing, having to retreat due to hull damage, armor their ships and go back.

That scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indiana Jones just pulls out his gun and shoots the guy? David is Indiana Jones in that scene.

[shoosh]

“This fandom is so toxic” - Martin Luther

[hermeticxhaote]

Imagine being a "Christian", never reading the Bible, and get upset at a video like this that is based on the factual work of Bibical scholars.

[liverbirdmighty]

As a Muslima, i am told we should believe in Torah and Injeel (gospel). I am a bookworm growing up till i entered workforce when i was 23. I loved reading religious books, and read the Indonesian translation of The Bible/alkitab.

Old Testament was ok but at times it was too gory and in many places too x-rated for me as teenager, while reading new testament i cant help feeling the Book of John was different from older 3 in regards to divinity of Jesus pbuh. It felt as if writer of John was trying to establish his own view of Jesus pbuh.

After I found out that the 4 canonical gospels were NOT WRITTEN BY THE DISCIPLES THEMSELVES, but by ANONYMOUS PEOPLE, i felt despair in trying to learn what Jesus pbuh actually did teach. Who can verify whether these anonymous people can be even trusted? (And we havent even touched the problem of Aramaic vs Greek vs translations of translations of translations of translations available to public as of now)

Gospels are like hadith in Islamic tradition. Bukhari/muslim/ahmad establish strict confirmation rule (who narrated, who retold the narration, whether the narrator actually met the prophet pbuh, whether the narrators in the chain of retelling all the way up to the source narrator that met the prophet were trustworthy). One link is deemed not reliable, the Hadith is no longer sahih (highest category). I cant find similar thing in gospel (where the writers of canonical gospels were even anonymous. No one knews who they were)

Edit to add pbuh after Jesus pbuh name and clarifying chain of narrator and sahih Hadith

[samueltrusik]

Imagine being the guy who is only remembered because he made a grammar mistake in the bible.

[Yannisastra]

It's very difficult (for me at least) that there are American Congressmen who believe that the first Bible was written in English. That's extreme ignorance...

[jimmetcalf]

The Greek text is the LXX. The Masoretic text is an edited Hebrew text done with certain goals: addition of vowel points to the consonants; choice from among Hebrew variant readings to help in debates with Christian apologists; standardization of the Hebrew text. I’m sure this comment at approx. 6:21 of the lecture is just an oversight. I find your work well done and clearly presented. Thank you for doing this.

[robertfolkner]

James I told his translators to use the “Bishops Bible” as their primary source. He wanted a version to replace the Geneva Bible, which had notes throughout explaining the text.

[hamzakadir]

People have no idea how painstaking it is to put something like this together. It's a lot of serious work.

[oghaki]

It is worth noting, there is a big difference between "the earliest copy" and "the earliest surviving copy of which we're aware". It is hard to infer too much from what has survived today.

[MichaelChau-qjnw]

Holy Bible should change its name, Holy stories

[docjun]

The Bible verse that has changed my life is John 3:16. Tha is the whole meaning of the Bible for me. Minor details does not change the overall theme of this Holy Scriptures.

[haleypirio]

I come back and re-watch this video and part 2 all the time. This is the kind of information I've craved since a child. Thank you for such amazing work. I can't even imagine the sheer research you did for this video. It's incredibly admirable.

[plkvideossemvideos]

3:37 if that makes you feel better, here in brazil there is a city with the same name of bethlehem (belém) and when i was a kid, i thought jesus was born in the middle of the amazon rain forest. 😂😂😂

[spaceghosttoast]

Dude wtf, why no spoiler warning? I didn't know Jesus

[tomswelt]

The fact that adult americans exist who believe that the Bible was written in one piece, in English is the most shocking thing I’ve ever heard. That really put me in a thought spiral.

[johngeorgevich]

Very informative. Thank you to the person who snuck in the frame from Life of Brian.